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Subject: Re: It's not big, It's huge...

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:09:05 04/19/00

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On April 18, 2000 at 23:47:01, Pete Galati wrote:

>[......]
>>>>>
>>>>>Just out of curiosity, do you ever offer a pgn collection of the games that
>>>>>Crafty plays online?
>>>>>
>>>>>Pete
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Yes.. there is a huge pgn file on the ftp site (I am not sure exactly which
>>>>directory).  It is called "crafty.pgn" I think...
>>>>
>>>>But note it is _big_.
>>>
>>>It is big!  It's in the games directory, it's 19.7mb in a Gzipped file.  Anyone
>>>using Netscape will have to right click on the file to be able to download it as
>>>crafty.pgn.gz, otherwise it will want to save as crafty.pgn.pgn if you left
>>>click, and you'll undoubtably have trouble unzipping it if it saves that way.
>>>
>>>Pete
>
>When you unzip this file, you end up with a pgn file that's 93.4mb, it's a bit
>on the hard side to open it or edit it.  Forget about Winboard or Chessbase Lite
>(at least on my computer) it's just too big.  Extreme Chess seems to have been
>able to open it, PFE can open it.  There seems to be 60,238 games.  They're not
>in completly standard formatting that everyone is used to with pgn, everything
>is in neat columns (extra spaces between moves to maintain the columns).
>
>This must have been Gzipped at maximum compression.  If I keep this file I'll
>remove the odd formating & spaces.  Who the heck is Bluebeard?  Heck of a rating
>he has.
>
>Pete


He's an anonymous GM, and probably the most dangerous anti-computer player
on ICC.



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